Safest counties for violent crime rate in the United States

Top 25 of 3144 counties with data.

Ranked by violent crime rate (FBI Crime Data Explorer (per-agency, 2018-2022 average), FBI CDE 2020-2024 avg), lowest first.

Safest counties for violent crime rate in the United States
Rank	County	Value
1	Liberty	15.1 per 100k
2	Brown	15.2 per 100k
3	McCreary	15.3 per 100k
4	Sheridan	15.5 per 100k
5	Franklin	15.8 per 100k
6	Waldo	15.8 per 100k
7	Martin	16.0 per 100k
8	Owen	16.1 per 100k
9	Elliott	16.3 per 100k
10	Dewey	16.3 per 100k
11	Fayette	16.4 per 100k
12	Rush	16.4 per 100k
13	Braxton	16.6 per 100k
14	Kinney	16.6 per 100k
15	Scotland	16.8 per 100k
16	Hanson	17.2 per 100k
17	Webster	17.4 per 100k
18	Menard	17.8 per 100k
19	Henry	17.8 per 100k
20	LaGrange	17.9 per 100k
21	Geauga	18.1 per 100k
22	Putnam	18.4 per 100k
23	Dearborn	18.6 per 100k
24	Pierce	18.8 per 100k
25	Marshall	19.0 per 100k

How this ranking works

This page ranks every US county by violent crime rate, sorted so the safest places appear first. Click any county to see its housing, schools, crime, and demographics in detail.

For violent crime rate, a lower value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the lowest. Want to weigh violent crime rate against schools, taxes, commute, and more at once? Use the live map to build a custom match.

Data comes from public sources. Source attribution and the exact data vintage are shown above and on the full map of violent crime rate.

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Safest Counties (Lowest Violent Crime) in the United States (2026)

Safest counties for violent crime rate in the United States

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